[Qgis-developer] Re: Proposal: Lift feature freeze for labelling

[Gary Sherman]

+1, if your investigation at the code sprint reveals it can be done in  
a reasonable time frame.

-gary

On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi all
>
> If you cast your mind back to our feature plans for QGIS 1.0, one
> sorely needed improvement is a better labelling engine. During the
> FOSS4G conference, I came across just such a project [1] where they
> have implemented just such a labelling engine in C++. This api also
> has a JNI interface and has been used in sextant / gvSIG via an
> extension (see [2]). Martin I know you had plans to do some work in
> this area - have you started anything yet?
>
> Since 1.0 will promise a stable API, and we have a golden opportunity
> here to incorporate proper labelling before we finalise the 1.0 API, I
> would like to propose that we revoke the feature freeze termporarily
> in order to allow us to incorporate the work of the PAL library.
> Marco and I will look at the feasibility of incorporating the PAL
> library into QGIS, and what kind of effect it would have on the API
> during the FOSS4G code sprint on saturday.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Regards
>
>
> [1] http://geosysin.iict.ch/pal-trac
> [2] http://geosysin.iict.ch/trac/wiki/Index4extJPAL
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